# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1922_S41
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1922. 41

Committee Report.

The committee to which the report of the Commission for Negro Mission had been referred for deliberation and evaluation by the Honorable President of the Synodical Conference [*Synodalkonferenz*], and which has met repeatedly with representatives of the Mission Commission and workers in the Negro Mission, hereby submits the following recommendations to the Honorable Synodical Conference:

1. With regard to the collections gathered in the Negro Mission: that the Honorable Synodical Conference, with thanks to God, express its joy that our Christians in the Negro Mission too are exerting themselves to increase their contributions, which have increased finely in recent years, and are contributing more and more to this mission. — Adopted.

2. That, with regard to the question whether our colored missionaries should join a district of the Missouri Synod or of the Wisconsin Synod, we advise the Commission to urge the colored missionaries for the present to join no district, but to content themselves with the conferences established in the Negro Mission, which for years have also been very numerously attended by representatives of congregations. In connection with this it is to be mentioned that we hope that the general conference of the workers in the Negro Mission founded this year be continued, and that sooner or later there may also come about the founding of a Negro synod. — Resolved.

3. That, since it has pleased the dear God to translate his faithfully deserving servant, Rev. Nils Jules Bakke, from his labor in the vineyard here below into the heavenly rest, we take due notice of it in this session. The Honorable Synodical Conference may therefore include the principal data of his eventful life and his self-sacrificing activity in this year's report. Your committee therefore places the same at the disposal of the Honorable Synodical Conference:

Rev. N. J. Bakke was born on 8 September 1852 in Trondheim [*Drontheim*], Norway. In his seventeenth year he came to America and somewhat later entered Luther College at Decorah, Iowa. He received his theological training at Concordia Seminary at St. Louis, Mo., and took his examination there in the year 1880. In the autumn of the same year, in November, he followed the call into the Negro Mission and took up work in it in New Orleans. In the year 1891 the Commission transferred him to Concord, N. C. In this field he was elected in the year 1903 Director of Immanuel College, which office he held until the year 1911. When the need was felt to appoint a Director of Missions, he was appointed to it. Five years later the direction of the mission in the Black Belt of Alabama was entrusted to him, until in the year 1920 he was by the Synodical Conference to the office of a Publicity Secretary